She opens a business delivering goods by broomstick-the "Witch Delivery Service". In exchange for accommodation, Kiki helps Osono, the kind owner of a bakery who is pregnant with her first child. While trying to find somewhere to live, Kiki is pursued by Tombo, a geeky boy obsessed with aviation who admires her flying ability. She flies on her broomstick to the port city of Koriko. Thirteen-year-old trainee witch Kiki leaves home with her talking black cat Jiji. It was released on home video in the U.S. Walt Disney Pictures produced an English dub in 1997, which premiered in United States theaters at the Seattle International Film Festivalon May 23, 1998. The film's 1990 Hong Kong release, as well as various re-releases between 20, increased its gross to US$41.8 million. It won various awards, including the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize, and it was the first film released under a 15-year distribution partnership between The Walt Disney Company and Studio Ghibli. The film grossed a total of ¥4.3 billion ($31 million) in its initial Japanese release and received critical acclaim. The film took ¥800 million ($6.9 million) to make and was released in Japan on July 29, 1989, by Toei Company.
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According to Miyazaki, the movie portrays the gulf between independence and reliance among teenage Japanese girls. Miyazaki would also alter the story of the original novel for his movie, adding new scenes to emphasize the theme of independence and growing up. Because the original novel is based on a fictional northern European country, Miyazaki and his team traveled to places like Stockholm to research its landscape. Miyazaki would be chosen as producer, while he initially made Sunao Katabuchi as the director, although he would later take Sunao's place as director because of how much he was involved in the project.
However, production began near the release of My Neighbor Totoro. The film was first conceptualized when Group Fudosha asked Kadono's publishers for the rights to the novel to be made into a feature film by either Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata in 1987. She also interacts with the various citizens of Koriko, which includes a boy named Tombo. While in the city, she meets Osono, who offers to let her stay in her bakery and earn a living by starting a flying courier service.
The story follows Kiki, a young witch who moves to the port city of Koriko in order to learn to be independent. The Japanese version stars the voices of Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma and Kappei Yamaguchi, while the 1998 English dub stars the voices of Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman, and Matthew Lawrence. It was animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Yamato Transport (which licensed the trademark Takkyūbin ( 宅急便) for the film) and the Nippon Television Network. 'Witch's Express Home Delivery') is a 1989 Japanese animated fantasy film written, produced, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, adapted from the 1985 novel Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono. Kiki's Delivery Service ( Japanese: 魔女の宅急便, Hepburn: Majo no Takkyūbin, lit.
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